statuette

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
    — […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother.

词形变化

statuettes plural

词源

Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f + -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue + -ette (diminutive suffix).
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